Who will tell the media?
Posted by Mister Go at September 19, 2005 03:38 PMIt couldn't happen to a nicer guy!!!!! But where are the Dems to fill this leadship vacuum, Clark, Fiengold, Clinton??
Posted by Nocal at September 19, 2005 05:02 PMThat should be leadership. Sorry
Posted by Nocal at September 19, 2005 05:03 PMIf you saw how bu$h dressed himself the other night, you would know why his numbers dropped!! Hilarious!
Posted by bushblowsturdblossom at September 19, 2005 05:03 PMWith the $200 billion, Bsh has morphed into Huey Long. No wonder the Repubs are mad
Posted by Big Red at September 19, 2005 05:46 PM"Only 49 percent called him a strong and decisive leader"; there is the lede. After 4.5 years of failure and worse, barely half the respondents have figured the moron out. He's not strong, at all. He's not decisive....well maybe that's it. He IS decisive, it's just that his ironclad decisions are uniformly wrong, and wrong to a horribly wrong degree that has cost thousands of American Lives. He is a guy that was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....and it's still in there. Gliding through life because his name is Bush. His father was Ambassador to China, head of the CIA, Vice President of the US and President of the US. And the Media let him call himself a "Washington Outsider". George W. Bush is a skater. Skating from vacation to vacation, killing time and GI's until he can retire to private life again and make money as a lobbyist for some goofball cause.
The polls are down for Bush because the longer we know him.....wait, don't include the majority of the country who voted for Gore.... the longer you other "citizens' know him, the less happy you are that you tied your sorry ass to the idiot and got dragged into this pit of lies with him. Dump the loser.
Bush only appears decisive because he lacks the intellectual capacity to change his opinion on any given subject even when confronted with new information.
The "not negotiating with myself" line is more telling than many realize.
Posted by muckcat at September 19, 2005 06:35 PMSome of the trolls tried to say that MS republican government has done notably better than LA, that's not necessarilly so.
Posted by rlp at September 19, 2005 06:44 PMUnfortunately these polls mean very little. Bush-Rove-Cheney axis of evil does not need to win a popularity contest.
They own the government, the courts. The purse strings. There is no antiwar Democratic leader. There is no huge populist move to the Democratic platform -- wait until another election is upon us, when the Republicans trot out Jesus, gay marriage, and race --
Posted by degustibus at September 19, 2005 06:46 PMGreat first year. Now we have three more years of this crap to endure.
Posted by Alexandra at September 19, 2005 07:18 PMThis month has really been a peak offering of the Bush/Cheney RICO Rackateering Operation. Solutions? We can do better than MoveOn can't we. Forget TV Ads, we need a new way. I just had dinner with a friend and I told him that 40% is the new majority and it's not numbers but loyalty that got Bush re-elected. It's all about loyalty that's why even a 40% approval rating is enough to get you in office. Unbelievable. You can never shake Bush's 40% base. Dems need to focus on their 40% base and write off the other 60%. That's what Bush does with the phony Jesus BS. This guy is a recovering alcoholic that panders exclusively to his base. That's what Dems need to do. Forget moderation if you want to win elections. Double down on your 40% base and you will succed in getting into office. That's what we are missing.
Posted by Marina Architect at September 19, 2005 09:11 PMHere's the thing about the supposedly brilliant stage-managing--they put him out alone, at night, with an eerily-lit church as the only backdrop. And:
1) it looked creepy
2) it looked like they were too chickens**t to show NO during the day
3) Bush doesn't carry gravitas well
4) Bush doesn't carry being alone well, since at least half the country doesn't trust him as far as they can throw him
Point being, besides the fact that the speech itself couldn't save him for Dems and angered fiscal conservatives, the fancy expensive setting was no less a disaster. Just because it was sophisticated doesn't mean it wasn't a terrible concept to begin with.
Posted by Whetstone at September 19, 2005 10:14 PM